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Alex Shuppara
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Ph.D candidate in biochemistry at UIUC in Sanfilippo Lab.

🐦Xitter immigrant @Shuppara_A

Studying… Microfluidics 💦 P. aeruginosa 🧫 antimicrobials 💊
Reposted by Alex Shuppara
Some notoriously difficult to treat infections may not be as resistant to antibiotics as has been thought, according to new research from #ILLINOIS using a microfluidic device that more closely duplicates the fluid flow found in the body than standard cultures.

go.mcb.illinois.edu/flow
March 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The correct link for this can be found here => www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by Alex Shuppara
How do bacteria experience nutrient stress in nature? In our new preprint, we study how cells respond to nutrient limitation under flow. We find that in flow, cells can grow on concentrations of glucose 1,000 times lower than in batch cell culture. (1/5)

#microsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 24, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Alex Shuppara
Do you feel stressed?
Is it one thing or a combination?

Turns out bacteria can’t handle stress either!

Excited to share my first first author paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social!

Combining multiple stressors blocks bacterial migration and growth! www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 19, 2024 at 8:03 PM